[3221] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: install walk-through
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Tibbetts)
Tue Dec 5 09:04:15 2000
Message-Id: <200012051404.JAA18293@multics.mit.edu>
To: Camilla R Fox <cfox@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU, tibbetts@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 05 Dec 2000 01:35:10 EST."
<200012050635.BAA01709@DENTAL-FLOSS-W20.MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 09:04:09 -0500
From: Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU>
Just a couple of comments.
On 12/5 Camilla wrote:
> Welcome
>
> Welcome to the SIPB-Athena Installer
>
> You can find the install guide at
> http://web.mit.edu/sipb/doc/rh-net-install.ps
>
> (that is, replace everything that's there)
It would be good to offer the install guide in html (possibly in
addition to postscript) since many users do not understand .ps
anymore.
> Disk Druid
>
> (We should take out the bit about Partitionless Installation, because
> we don't support that (or should we?). Then take out the paragraphs
> referring to the redhat installation guide, and replace them with
> the following.)
>
> We recommend a / partition of at least 2 gigabytes, and an appropriate
> swap partition. A reasonable rule of thumb for a swap partition is
> 50Mb or 150Mb - <amount of ram that you have>, whichever is greater.
>
> If it's convenient, allow an additional 100Mb partition, with a mount
> point of /usr/vice/cache.
I would suggest changing the last sentence to:
If possible, create an additional 100Mb partition with a mount
point of /usr/vice/cache for the AFS cache. The partition type
should be Linux.
That makes it sound more important, it also gives people a little bit
better idea why they are doing it. If the user has used linux before
he may still not be familiar with what /usr/vice/cache is. Also, disk
druid (IIRC) will require the user to set the partition type, and I
could see users thinking that Linux Swap is the right thing.
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